The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
ANNE LAMOTTOne thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline. But also every single day a kid needs a break.
More Anne Lamott Quotes
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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
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How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.
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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
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If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death.
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Creative expression, whether that means writing, dancing, bird-watching, or cooking, can give a person almost everything that he or she has been searching for: enlivenment, peace, meaning, and the incalculable wealth of time spent quietly in beauty.
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So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
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We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be.
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Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
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Hope begins in the dark.
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Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
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What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.
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And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
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Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
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We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.
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